Monkey business
The Monkey King at San Francisco Opera combines spectacle and sentiment.
4 pieces since 2016 — at 3 companies, most often at New York City Opera.
The Monkey King at San Francisco Opera combines spectacle and sentiment.
The new musical starring Idina Menzel, ostensibly a paean to back-to-naturism, could hardly feel more manufactured and synthetic.
L.A. Opera offered an inspired concert staging of Leonard Bernstein’s musical-comedy bouquet to New York, Wonderful Town.
Last evening’s scorching performance of Fallujah by the New York City Opera demonstrated that sometimes impact is not limited by physical proximity.
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